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Originally posted by Mark Dexter
Tell Dave to give the coaches flagrant fouls - then they'll have to coach from the parking lot.
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This reminds me of a situation with the Youth Football League in my area this past Fall. I was an eyewitness.
With about 3 minutes left in a game with his team up by 21 points a coach had been riding the officials the entire game about unnecessary roughness by the other team. On a punt return his player was running down the sideline and was nailed by an opponent. It was about 5 yards from where I was standing and it was just a good tackle by the kid. The coach went balistic on the closest official and was ejected. In this league an ejection is an automatic 1 game suspension. The next week a parent pointed out to the coach on the opposing team that the assistant coach was turning his back to the field and talking on a cell phone. Someone else spotted the suspended coach behind some bushes with binoculars talking to the assistant on his cell phone. League officials went to talk to the guy and he refused to leave. He said he was on private property and they could not make him leave. 2 league officials stood where he was the rest of the game and all of the spectators had a good laugh at this odd group standing over by the bushes. Because of his stupidity, he was suspended the rest of the season.